Improvement in smoking-tubes



c. nossm.

NPETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASNINGTDNA D (L UNITED STATES PATENTQEEIcE.

CHARLES ROSS, JR., OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SMOKING-TUBES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [75,877, dated April11, 1876; application filed i May 31, 1875.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES Ross, J r., of the city of Brooklyn, countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Manufacturing Pipes, made of plaster, clay, meerschaum,or other porous materials, for use in smoking cut t0- bacco; and I dohereby declare that the fol lowing is a full description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters ofreference marked thereon.

The objectof my invention is to furnish a cheap and convenientsmoking-tube which may be brought within the reach ofthe laboring classof workmen, 011 account of its siml plicity and cheapness ofmanufacture, and one in which, from its particular internal form,willnot be liable to become choked, and whereby plug or fine-cut tobacco maybe used therein, as may be desired. i

The invention consists in the device being made of a single piece ofordinary clay, white or colored, as may be desired, having theparticular configuration internally, as hereinafter more fully setforth.

Figure lis a vertical longitudinal section of my smoking-tube. Fig. 2 isa side view ofthe same.

The smoking-tube is formed of clay in molds, and has atobacco-receptacle, a, running about half way through the device, whichgradually converges at b, where the stem part or smokepassage commences.This smoke-passage is much the largest at b, and likewise converges tothe tip o. The bowl part A is left thin, in

order that the device may be light and easily held between the teeth,while the stem part B is made considerably thicker, as it is smaller, orless in diameter, and requires additional thickness to give strength.

I am well aware that smoking-tubes of the general conguration of mineare not new, and that they have been made with a clay exterior,

but expensive internal linings, which not onlyr The converging walls ofthe channel b o,

opening into the receptacle a with a flaring or bell mouth, has theeffect of giving a cigarflike draw to the smoker, while avoiding theliability to choke at the junction of the chamber and channel.

I claim- The clay smoking tube herein described, formed in one piece andhaving the internal form, as and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES ROSS, JR. Witnesses:

J osEPH HOEFFLING, ADOLPH HOEEFLING.

